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Ben Pickering joined OCHA Philippines in May 2014 to manage the humanitarian hub in Zamboanga City, Mindanao. His role was to help local authorities and the wider humanitarian community in the coordination of humanitarian assistance to all affected people.
Zamboanga City is highly urbanized city located...

Dale Potter is a Civil-Military Coordination (CMCoord) officer for the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team that deployed to Vanuatu five days after Tropical Cyclone Pam made landfall on 13 March 2015.
As soon as my boots hit the ground, it struck me: the Government...

Helping displaced people have access to enough clean water throughout the year
As temperatures soar towards the end of March and with little to no rain until the month of May, the dry season poses a serious challenge to the thousands of displaced people in Myanmar. Every year, inadequate access to water...

Humanitarian crises are not often associated with developed countries. However, nature does not discriminate between developed and developing countries. The Great East Japan Earthquake, which struck Fukushima on 11 March 2011, is proof that even in a disaster-prepared country such as Japan, nature can...

Representatives from 187 UN Member States adopted the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda—a far-reaching new framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR) that has seven targets and four priorities for action.
The agreement was reached at the Third World Conference on Disaster...